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Hi
John,
You’ve been hearing about the art auction, seeing the pieces on social media, and now they are here!

The Drawing the Connections art auction opens TODAY and runs through Saturday, June 18th! ([link removed]) There are so many pieces in this collection that are unabashed expressions of art-ivism as a driver of social change, and I’d like to share a few pieces that resonated with me. See more below!

To view and bid on these and other awe-inspiring pieces register for the auction today!

It’s easy:
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* Browse the available items and start bidding!
* Updates will be sent to you via text message, and you'll be able to monitor your bids right from your phone.

Your bids will support our crucial work to address and end the breast cancer crisis. ([link removed])

In solidarity,
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Jayla Burton
Program Manager
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Cate White - "Hello Will to Live" (11 x 8.5, acrylic, ink, ballpoint pen on Bristol paper, framed)

White’s intimacy with cultural margins is reflected in her work—in subject matter and in philosophical perspective. Her symbolically charged, narrative paintings illuminate many of our personal and collective shadows in relation to class, race, gender, trauma, morality and power. To communicate and represent across social strata, White uses a democratic aesthetic of figurative storytelling, comedy and raw emotion. 

Self-taught beginning at age 30, White’s work became public in 2014 with the ProArts 2x2 Solos Exhibition, followed by the 2015 Tournesol Award from Headlands Center for the Arts, the Bay Area Now 8 triennial at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, and residencies including a fully-funded, year-long residency in Roswell, New Mexico, a Master Artist residency with Joan Snyder at Atlantic Center for the Arts, the Mills College Art Museum A+P+I residency, and 10 solo shows and multiple group shows in the Bay Area and beyond. 

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Heather Stone – "And new life flowers from the ruins..." (8x6 mixed media woven collage postcard: magazines*, origami paper, map, metallic foil) 

This piece reflects our obsession with automobiles, fossil fuels, and petroleum, and the destruction and ruin it’s caused our planet and environment.
Fossil fuels contribute to environmental degradation from their extraction to production, exacerbating extreme climate change and they can increase the risk of developing breast cancer. This piece also reflects the hope that we can stop this world climate crisis before it’s too late.

Heather is an artist based in East Oakland. She uses paper and ceramics to creatively express her love of popular culture and the environment. This piece is from her series "Postcards from the Edge" a COVID postcard exchange she started to connect with friends, family, and artists across the globe. Her postcards have been shared across the United States, Asia, Australia and parts of Europe through the United States Postal Service.

*magazine image of lithograph by Klaus Staeck
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Carol Benioff – "Message" (plate size 4.875 x 6.875, etching and aquatint on Lana Gravure paper, framed)

As a native San Franciscan growing up, art was a constant for Carol: art classes at the De Young Museum, Academy of Art, San Francisco Art Institute with Jay DeFeo, three semesters at California College of Arts and Craft, and most significantly studying with Ronald Chase.

From Ronald she learned the daily art practice: pay attention to process, find your voice, look and learn from other artists, and most of all persevere. The path she chose took her many places, sometimes far from her art, and it took decades of practice to find her voice. She was caring for a writer storyteller friend who was dying of AIDS. One of the cruelties of the disease was that it took his voice. She would try to tell him stories and he would roll his eyes in disgust. She gave up and drew him instead. From these drawings came a series of monoprints, and later an artist’s book, Passing Over. She now makes art that is authentic and her own.

After moving to the East Bay, she was awarded the James. D. Phelan in Printmaking, and a printmaking fellowship at Kala Art Institute for her new technique of combining digital painting with intaglio printmaking. Through the years, she has freelanced as a book illustrator, a print production manager, and was the primary caretaker for her ailing partner of 20 years. Through it all, she carved out time to draw, print, paint, and exhibit her artwork.
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